Although several of her observations are accurate, I disagree with her conclusion.

Most Americans would agree U.S. tax codes are out of control. There are hundreds of books and journals used to interpret the code. Accountants and tax attorneys alike very often disagree on applying the rules and regulations. Indeed, the IRS itself loses many cases in Federal Tax Court due to their misinterpreting their own rules.

However, exposing corporate tax returns to the public would accomplish nothing. Large corporate tax returns can involve hundreds of pages. The untrained eye would have no comprehension of what they were examining.

If such public exposure were implemented the next step could be to include smaller, closely held, family corporations. Clearly, friends, neighbors, and competitors have no right to scrutinize such tax returns. Then perhaps individual tax returns might be included.

Tax returns have always been treated as confidential, between the taxpayer and IRS, and should remain that way.

Rampell does not mention the cause of the IRS beast, which is Congress. Due to compromises and special interest influences Congress has created this cumbersome tax code.

They also have the ability to simplify it, but will never do so because of political considerations. Most recently they have named IRS as the watchdog for the Affordable Care Act. This maneuver alone has added thousands of additional IRS auditors to ensure Affordable Care Act compliance.